The President's Man 2 by Alex Ander

Author:Alex Ander [Ander, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alex Ander
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

NECESSARY MEANS

Aaron Hardy Series

Book #6

Chapter 1: Slopes

December 22nd, 4:15 p.m. (Mountain Time); Denver, Colorado

Layla cranked her head around and glimpsed the chair lift that had brought her to the top of Ridge. She pulled her goggles over her eyes and smiled at her friend. “Do you always do what you’re told?” She drove her ski poles into the snow and pushed off, propelling her body down the slope.

Abigail glanced at the chair lift and saw the two men who had been shadowing both her and Layla the entire day. The men had their ski poles in one hand, while holding onto the chair lift with the other, preparing to jump off and coast away before the next group of skiers disembarked. Abigail was hesitant to ditch the men, but her fear of being labeled a ‘chicken’ superseded her reluctance. She spotted Layla, her outline getting smaller by the second. Abigail dug her poles into the snow and leaned forward, gaining momentum as fast as she could.

Picking up speed, Abigail felt her heart beating faster. Closing the distance between her and her friend, she could feel her pulse pounding in her head. Her stomach was in knots. Her muscles convulsed. She had never done anything like this before. What’s dad going to do? She drew up behind Layla and watched her friend slow before taking a hard left turn and zipping between two trees, past a boundary sign. Abigail twisted her hips to the left and followed.

Gliding down a narrow path, trees on either side of them, the girls made a sharp right and headed down a virgin trail, closed to skiers. The snow was fluffy and flew into the air as Layla and Abigail’s skis floated across the surface. Abigail was reveling in the cushion of powder beneath her skis. She followed Layla around a curve in the trail. Taking the curve, Abigail stole a quick look over her left shoulder and saw two tiny specks of color; the ski jackets of the two men who had been with the girls all day. A long way back, the men disappeared from sight, when she went deeper into the curve. Whipping her head around, she saw Layla had stopped, and was staring at a person sprawled on the trail. Abigail slowed before pulling alongside her friend and performing a hockey stop, her parallel skis digging in and throwing snow ahead of the girls. She placed her goggles on her forehead. Her cheeks were bright red. Visible puffs of air shot out from her mouth, while she tried to catch her breath. “What happened?”

Layla shrugged. “I don’t know. I came around the bend and saw him at the last moment. If I hadn’t seen him, I’d have taken a nasty spill.”

“Is he all right?”

“He hasn’t moved, since I first saw him.”

Abigail used her ski poles to loosen the bindings of her skis before sticking the poles in the snow. Stepping out of her skis, she approached the man. He was lying on his left side, facing away from her.

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